Achievements and Tips

Achievements and Tips

Price Chopper (20G):
Survive the Dead Center campaign

Midnight Rider (20G):
Survive the Dark Carnival campaign

Ragin' Cajun (20G):
Survive the Swamp Fever campaign.

Weatherman (20G):
Survive the Hard Rain campaign.

Bridge Burner (20G): 
Survive the Parish campaign.

TIP: For the campaign completion achievements (e.g. Price Chopper), this can be done on any difficulty, with AI or Human friends.

Still Something to Prove (35G):
Survive all campaigns on Expert.

TIP: The easiest campaign to do this on is Dead Center, as it is the shortest, with one of the easiest extractions.

The Real Deal (35G):
Survive a campaign on Expert skill with Realism mode enabled.

TIP: The easiest campaign to do this on is Dead Center, as it is the shortest, with one of the easiest extractions.

Confederacy of Crunches (30G):
Finish a campaign using only melee weapons

TIP: You can still use grenades and turrets, but no pistols (even when downed).
TIP: AI Bots can still fire and it won't affect the achievement, so play with as many as possible
TIP: You can complete any campaign on any difficulty to get this

Head Honcho (15G):
Decapitate 200 Infected with a melee weapon.

Club Dead (15G): 
Use every melee weapon to kill Common Infected.

TIP: Baseball Bat doesn't count (as it was a preorder special) and neither does the Chainsaw.

Chain of Command (15G): 
Kill 100 Common Infected with the chainsaw.

Tank Burger (30G): 
Kill a Tank with melee weapons.

TIP: The Tank must take no damage from any bullets for this to work.

Shock Jock (30G): 
Revive 10 dead Survivors with the defibrillator.

TIP: You can't just kill your team mates and then defibrillate them – they must be killed in action, though fall damage counts so you could get a Human to jump from height and let them bleed out).

The Quick and the Dead (30G): 
Revive 10 incapacitated Survivors while under the speed-boosting effects of adrenaline.

TIP: You can't have downed the Survivor that you are healing.

Armory of One (15G): 
Deploy an ammo upgrade and have your team use it.

Burning Sensation (15G):
Ignite 50 Common Infected with incendiary ammo.

Dismemberment Plan (20G):
Kill 15 Infected with a single grenade launcher blast.

TIP: Do this while the Infected are clawing at a Bile Bomb canister.

Septic Tank (15G): 
Use a bile bomb on a Tank.

Crass Menagerie (20G):
Kill one of each UnCommon Infected.

TIP: You only need to kill a UCI from each of the first four levels.

Dead in the Water (20G):
Kill 10 swampy Mudmen while they are in the water.

Robbed Zombie (15G): 
Collect 10 vials of Boomer vomit from Infected CEDA agents you have killed.

CL0WN'd (15G): 
Honk the noses of 10 Clowns.

TIP: You do this by using the melee attack (LT) on a clown's face – you can repeatedly do it on the same Infected.

Fried Piper (15G): 
Using a Molotov, burn a Clown leading at least 10 Common Infected.

Level a Charge (15G):
Kill a Charger with a melee weapon while they are charging.

Acid Reflex (15G):
Kill a Spitter before she is able to spit.

A Ride Denied (15G): 
Kill a Jockey within 2 seconds of it jumping on a Survivor.

Stache Whacker (15G): 
Prove you are faster than Moustachio.

TIP: You must earn a score of 42 in the Whack a Mole minigame during the fourth stage of Dark Carnival – all Survivors taking part in the whacking get the achievement.

Gong Show (15G):
Prove you are stronger than Moustachio.

TIP: Again in Dark Carnival's fourth act, use a melee weapon combined with Adrenaline on the test-your-strength minigame.

Guardin' Gnome (30G): 
Rescue Gnome Chompski from the Carnival.

TIP: Collect the gnome after getting a score of 760 points in the shooting gallery of Dark Carnival's second act. You must then carry him (like the Cola) to the end of the level and extract to the helicopter. He can be dropped and picked up again, allowing use of a weapon.
TIP: As long as one person finished the level with the gnome, all will get the achievement.

Wing and a Prayer (30G):
Defend yourself at the crashed airliner without taking damage.

TIP: Activate the set-piece during Act Two and then retreat so that the horde comes at you through the door of the plane.
TIP: You only need to play the second act of Swamp Fever to gain this achievement.

Sob Story (30G): 
Navigate the sugar mill and reach the safe room without killing any Witches.

TIP: The key here is that as long as you don't kill any witches, you get the achievement. They can kill you, but you can't damage them or the achievement is lost.

Violence in silence (30G):
Navigate the impound lot and reach the cemetery safe room without tripping any alarms.

Bridge Over Trebled Slaughter (30G):
Cross the bridge finale in less than three minutes.

TIP: Ideally without any AI players, use Adrenaline to bypass the Tank and keep on running!
TIP: You can do this on any difficulty.

Heartwarmer (20G):
In a Versus round, leave the saferoom to defibrillate a dead teammate.

Strength in Numbers (15G): 
Form a team and beat an enemy team in 4v4 Versus or Scavenge.

Qualified Ride (15G):
As the Jockey, ride a Survivor for more than 12 seconds.

Back in the Saddle (15G):
As the Jockey, ride the Survivors twice in a single life.

Rode Hard, Put Away Wet (20G): 
As the Jockey, ride a Survivor and steer them into a Spitter's acid patch.

Great Expectorations (15G):
As the Spitter, hit every Survivor with a single acid patch.

A Spittle Help From My Friends (15G):
As the Spitter, spit on a Survivor being choked by a Smoker.

Scattering Ram (20G):
As the Charger, bowl through the entire enemy team in a single charge.

Meat Tenderizer (20G):
As the Charger, grab a Survivor and smash them into the ground for a solid 15 seconds.

Long Distance Carrier (15G): 
As the Charger, grab a Survivor and carry them over 80 feet.

Beat the Rush (15G):
In a Survival round, get a medal only using melee weapons.

Hunting Party (15G): 
Win a game of Scavenge.

Gas Guzzler (20G):
Collect 100 gas cans in Scavenge.

Cache and Carry (20G):
Collect 15 gas cans in a single Scavenge round.

TIP: This is 15 for your whole team in one round.

Scavenge Hunt (15G):
Stop the enemy team from collecting any gas cans during a Scavenge round.

TIP: Spitters' acid destroys gas cans, which may help with this achievement.

Fuel Crisis (15G):
Make a Survivor drop a gas can during overtime.

Gas Shortage (20G):
Cause 25 gas can drops as a Special Infected.